Letters of a woman homesteader by elinore pruitt stewart

Letters of a woman homesteader by elinore pruitt stewart

Letters of a woman homesteader by elinore pruitt stewart: The book is all about the 26 letters that were written by Elinore to Mrs. Coney who was her former employer. The letters span for a period of four years from 1909 to 1913.

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This ownership deal was enticing as it gave the homesteaders four times the acreage of land that they would have acquired from the previous act. The Homestead Act was eventually enlarged in 1909 which allowed the claiming of up to 320 acres of land in areas which were arid.

The parents of Elinore died while she was young and this supports the fact that she was mostly self-educated. She therefore, had the task of bringing up her younger siblings.

Even without the formal education and training her choice of words in the letters indicate how she must have been a voracious reader. Her frequent book references also indicate how she educates herself alone[1].

This shows how much she valued self educated by ensuring that she was able to read and gather all the information that she could. This self education enabled her to raise her

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